FAITHFUL A. E.
1059, Sergeant, 28th Divisional Signals Company, Royal Engineers, WW1
Legion of Frontiersmen, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa

CITATION
Distinguished Conduct Medaal
Gazetted 23 June 1915
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Kruisstraat, on 14th and 15th March 1915, in repeatedly mending the telephone line under fire. Also near Ypres on 22nd and 27th April, 1915, Serjeant Faithfull remained out day and night laying and repairing lines continuously under fire. To do this he had to carry heavy reels of wire several miles on foot, but accomplished his task.

KNOWN AWARDS
Distinguished Conduct Medal
1914-15 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal

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BATTLE HONOURS
Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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